I liked Clancy a lot, especially when I was younger. His later stuff wasn't nearly as good, but I read everything he wrote by the time I was a senior in HS and really enjoyed it. Helped me want to get into the field I'm in today.

Liked Vince Flynn a lot too. Rough year for authors of geopolitical fiction.

Hope George R.R. Martin is eating healthy (trolling for e0 reaction in 3...2...1...)

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves-----Abe Lincoln

Let me tell you, if any of you douchebag empty headed stuffed suit nanny politicians tries to fuck with my bacon, I’m going after you like a crazed chimpanzee on bath salts. -----Lars

IMHO, Clancy's most memorable novel is "Debt of Honor," whose plot seemed outlandish when the book was published in 1994. Little did we know that 9/11 wasn't far off.

Clancy tended to be long-winded, but--over the course of multiple books--the character of Jack Ryan became one of the most fully drawn of the genre. Thankfully, we get one more adventure with Jack in "Command Authority," due out Dec. 3rd.

gotribe31 wrote:I liked Clancy a lot, especially when I was younger. His later stuff wasn't nearly as good, but I read everything he wrote by the time I was a senior in HS and really enjoyed it. Helped me want to get into the field I'm in today.

Liked Vince Flynn a lot too. Rough year for authors of geopolitical fiction.

Hope George R.R. Martin is eating healthy (trolling for e0 reaction in 3...2...1...)

I mean, admitting Tom Clancy defined your entire adult life is a bit more make-fun-of-able than your GoT nerdom...

gotribe31 wrote:I liked Clancy a lot, especially when I was younger. His later stuff wasn't nearly as good, but I read everything he wrote by the time I was a senior in HS and really enjoyed it. Helped me want to get into the field I'm in today.

Liked Vince Flynn a lot too. Rough year for authors of geopolitical fiction.

Hope George R.R. Martin is eating healthy (trolling for e0 reaction in 3...2...1...)

I mean, admitting Tom Clancy defined your entire adult life is a bit more make-fun-of-able than your GoT nerdom...

That's not exactly what I said, but ok. It worked out pretty well for me, government lunacy notwithstanding.

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves-----Abe Lincoln

Let me tell you, if any of you douchebag empty headed stuffed suit nanny politicians tries to fuck with my bacon, I’m going after you like a crazed chimpanzee on bath salts. -----Lars

justmebd wrote:CAPD is where I think the editors stopped caring how long his books were.

Same could be said for Stephen King's editors. Over the last 8-10 years, I think King just writes until he's got 700 pages, then stops. And the editors don't cut out all the shit about what Crazy McFlake's aunt is dreaming about while old Crazy is chopping up the neighborhood.

But put the name Clancy, King, Patterson or about a half-dozen other popular nom de plumes on the cover and it sells a million copies, no matter how bad it is. Could never figure that out.

justmebd wrote:CAPD is where I think the editors stopped caring how long his books were.

Same could be said for Stephen King's editors. Over the last 8-10 years, I think King just writes until he's got 700 pages, then stops. And the editors don't cut out all the shit about what Crazy McFlake's aunt is dreaming about while old Crazy is chopping up the neighborhood.

But put the name Clancy, King, Patterson or about a half-dozen other popular nom de plumes on the cover and it sells a million copies, no matter how bad it is. Could never figure that out.

Totally agree. Under the Dome was about twice as long as it needed to be, and that's just one example.

I still love King, but I've learned where I can skim chapters with him.